tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post7806756643485432466..comments2016-12-09T05:16:20.988-06:00Comments on Dr. Wes: Good Thing or Bad?DrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-50381700982920509522010-08-28T11:04:57.095-05:002010-08-28T11:04:57.095-05:00When you&#39;re happy to pay for universal pre-sch...When you&#39;re happy to pay for universal pre-school, school lunches, mental health clinics, drug re-hab, universal pre-natal care, after school programs, dental care for needy children, universal kindergarten, affordable college tuition, and wars that are paid for - maybe just three of them - then I&#39;ll be happy to pay for open heart surgery at 101.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-26725501938698507442010-08-28T07:38:59.176-05:002010-08-28T07:38:59.176-05:00AM-
While agree with you, &quot;society&quot; is ...AM-<br /><br />While agree with you, &quot;society&quot; is quickly evolving toward using &quot;guidelines&quot; for medical care as &quot;mandates&quot; for care. I would hope that local, reasoned approach to this issue between a doctor and patient could be maintained in the future, but with third party payers increasingly controlling who gets what, we can look for any number of other covert DrWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17438019699222125477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-40964663276578510372010-08-27T18:32:16.300-05:002010-08-27T18:32:16.300-05:00If you&#39;re relatively healthy, have all of your...If you&#39;re relatively healthy, have all of your marbles, and still enjoy being alive, why wouldn&#39;t you do this? Has society picked an age at which it decides you&#39;re not worth saving?AMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02475433199308666648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18943510.post-77730012652260661972010-08-27T13:40:14.427-05:002010-08-27T13:40:14.427-05:00Just had a discussion about this with one of our C...Just had a discussion about this with one of our CT surgeons. His elderly mother recently died with severe AS. Her physicians wanted to refer her for percutaneous valve replacement. He declined to persue this and felt that it was not appropriate.<br />That made me a bit more optimistic about the utilization of these devices if/when they get approval. <br />But I guess he could be an outlier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com